8 letters · 11 points in Scrabble
adjective carrying developing offspring within the body or being about to produce new life
adjective rich in significance or implication
adjective filled with or attended with
originFrom Middle English preignant, from Old French preignant, pregnant, also prenant (compare archaic Modern French prégnant), and their source, Latin praegnāns (“pregnant”), probably from prae- (“pre-”) + *gnāscī, an archaic form of nāscī (“to be born”). Displaced Old English bearnēacen (literally "child-enlarged").
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0